saudi arabia government at the time and encouraged certain actions to be taken to put pressure on the taliban and bin laden. >> i'm taking it your answer to my question is you did advise against -- in favor of the kans collation of that operation. >> i didn't think it was a worthwhile operation and didn't have a chance of success. >> the 9/11 commission reported that no capture plan before 9/11 ever again detailed preparation. do you have any second thoughts about your recommendations to the director to cancel that operation? >> senator, i have no second thoughts whatsoever about my sad vice which was to look carefully because the chances of success was minimal. i was not in the chain of command at the time. i was serving abroad as chief of operation. >> you received the daily updates from the time of zabada's capture and interrogation and the lawfulness of the techniques putting you in a position to express any concerns you had about the program. before any of the most controversial techniques and waterboarding were ever used. we found that minimum of 50 memos in the documents within the 6,0